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Sometimes problem records that I work on for WebSphere MQ Level 2 have a common theme. I've seen a few instances lately where people have created Group IDs with more than 12 characters on Linux Platforms. I thought I would share what I've learned in this area, and hopefully it will help you. Group IDs greater than 12 characters cause an error when the WebSphere MQ Object Authority Manager (OAM) checks the security for access to MQ objects. You might experience unpredictable results when trying to access, or administer, MQ objects and receive a... [More]

Hello MQ Fans! MQ 7.1 introduces a very transcendental feature which has many implications for installation, administration and runtime: it is possible to have multiple versions of MQ installed in the same machine. This was not possible with MQ 7.0 and previous versions. Even though you may want to have only one version of MQ in the machine, such as 7.1, the MQ developers wanted to ensure that you could have the freedom and flexibility to install another version to coexist in the same machine, such as 7.5. I wrote 3 techdocs that provide very... [More]